In a host of studies, the ability of various types of cues to capture attention has been
examined. This article reviews a number of these studies by organizing them into a …

In two experiments, participants counted features of schematic faces with positive, negative,
or neutral emotional expressions. In Experiment 1 it was found that counting features took …

We examined the neural mechanisms of functional asymmetry between hemispheres in the
processing of global and local information of hierarchical stimuli by measuring …

The visual system relies on several heuristics to direct attention to important locations and
objects. One of these mechanisms directs attention to sudden changes in the environment …

In natural vision, the central nervous system actively selects information for detailed
processing through mechanisms of visual attention. It is widely held that simple stimulus …

According to contingent-processing accounts, peripheral cuing effects are due to the cues'
inadvertent selection for processing by control settings set up for targets (eg, CL Folk, RW …

Atypical sensory perception is one of the most ubiquitous symptoms of autism, including a
tendency towards a local-processing bias. We investigated whether local-processing biases …

Visual working memory (VWM) is typically considered to represent complete objects—that is,
separate parts of an object are maintained as bound objects. Yet it remains unclear whether …

Object configurations can be perceptually represented at various hierarchical levels. For
example, in visual search, global Kanizsa figures are detected efficiently, whereas search for …

The human visual system consists of multiple topographic maps that extend from the early
visual cortex (EVC) along the dorsal and ventral processing streams. Responses to illusory …